if this keeps up i’m going to have to root around in my closet for my sewing box.
i need more bobbins!
i need more thread!
i need to stop making u-turns with my sewing machine and slow down.
but right now i can’t.
cause i just finished book 3 of the neopolitan novels by elena ferrante and i’m ready to kick the main character’s arse. and i hate her stupid love interest who’s a duckhead. and now i have to find out what happened because they just got in an airplane and went somewhere. whaaaa????!!!!!
i’m on to the final installment in the series! the story of the lost child. listening to books is fun. i listen while i wash dishes, chop things, cut things, sew things to other things, even during lunch at school.
you can come in but don’t dare talk to me! and i sit with my headphones or ear buds or whatever those things are called and i LISTEN. while the 3rd grade girls play with their stuffed ponies and stickers and coloring books. in silence.
A friend is currently reading the books and loves them, so I might give them a try once she’s done. I myself have gone down the endless rabbit hole of podcasts. (Go there at your own peril, it’s addictive!). The good thing is I can combine it beautifully with drawing patterns and drawing patterns and drawing patterns. It’s like productive entertainment! That is I learn new stuff AND draw more, so maybe it’s a good addiction?
I love looking at your stitched papers. I really need to get back to making stitched journals myself, it’s been too long and I kindof miss it. I’m still so happy I took your ROD class years ago. Just the fact that you can stitch paper was a revelation for me at the time. 🙂
I got tired of her after the first book, my threshold for idjits must be lower than yours. Maybe I’ll skip to the last book and call it a day
Wow! I love the whole different patterns, sewn-paper look. Especially those with the ledger paper.
Though I was carried away bij the story (I read all 4 books one afther the other), I was dissapointed with the caracters. The more I read the more irritant Elena got. And I agree with mama Moss regarding Nino. But the athor described very well the threathning atmosphere, the lives with no hope for improvement, the impossebillity to get away from this gettho. In some ways Italy hasn’t changed much I thought when I heard the stories last week about the million-fraud with refugee-money in Sicily
by book 4 i am sick of hearing her complaints about LILA and when she leaves her dear little daughters with her inlaws while she goes off to find herself with her new love. oh that really bothered me. but of course as you say…i can’t stop listening!
Great idea! Remembering how fun your paper sewing class was. Thank you!!
I found the whole series irritating. There, I said it. The last book is the best. It’s what I thought the whole series would be.
one dumb decision after the next for elena our protagonist/narrator who starts out so promising. she becomes so whiney and ridiculous. then there’s the recurring irritant that is NINO. i’d like to “wring his neck”, as mama moss would say…